US5071209A - Variable acuity non-linear projection system - Google Patents
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- the present invention relates generally to the field of image projection and in particular to the projection of non-linear images.
- Flight trainers and other computer controlled simulators are currently capable of providing the illusion of traveling across a computer generated landscape.
- Such simulators are limited by the amount of image data which can practically be presented in a real time simulation. This limitation forces a reduction from that desired in either the field of view of the simulation or the resolution of the images presented.
- An optimal simulation display would have a field of view of 180° and a resolution of at least one minute of arc. This goal is difficult to achieve, however, because such a display would require approximately 60 million picture elements or pixels. A one thousand line television picture generates about 500,000 pixels. Thus, the equivalent of approximately 100 television monitors would be required to generate an optimum simulator display. As the total cost of such a system would be unacceptable, alternative approaches have been utilized.
- a 180° computer generated simulator display that similarly decreased the amount of information contained in the image towards its edges, that is, reduced the number of pixels of the image in proportion to the pixels' distance from the center of the display, would be able to significantly reduce the total number of pixels needed for the display.
- variable acuity non-linear lenses are comprised of multiple aspherical and simple lenses.
- the number and type of lenses required make current non-linear lenses are costly, difficult to manufacture and relatively heavy.
- variable acuity non-linear system and lens is needed, wherein the lens is lightweight, simple in form, and inexpensive to produce.
- the present invention provides a variable acuity non-linear holographic optical element (HOE) for use with a computer generated visual display system.
- the HOE is used with a system which can fully satisfy the human visual acuity over a 180° field-of-view.
- the HOE when used in conjunction with a computer image generator, provides distortion in an image projected to the interior of a hemispherical screen such that equal-size and equally spaced pixels on a light valve surface are projected as differently sized pixels with variable spacing on the screen.
- the variation of the pixel size and spacing matches the variation of human visual acuity permitting a realistic view to be presented to an observer while requiring a minimum of computer data to be generated and projected.
- the computer is programmed to create images having a multiplicity of pixels.
- the portion of the image in each pixel is increased by a predetermined amount in proportion to the distance of the pixel from the center of the image.
- the light valve is connected to the computer and projects the images created by the computer.
- the projected images are focused to bundles of light rays having a predetermined cross-section. The focusing is accomplished by a positive lens which converges the light ray bundles a predetermined amount and a negative lens which then collimates the converged light ray bundles to the desired cross-section.
- the viewing screen comprises at least a segment of a hemisphere and receives and reflects the projected images.
- the HOE is placed between the negative lens and the screen. The HOE redirects and expands each ray bundle by a predetermined amount, the amount increasing in proportion to the distance of the light ray bundle from the center of the image.
- Each pixel of the projected image is likewise expanded in proportion to its distance from the center of the image.
- the system additionally provides means for maintaining the center of the projected images in alignment with center of the field of view of the observer.
- Another aspect of the invention includes an apparatus for creating the HOE utilizing a holographic recording medium and a laser beam directed towards the medium.
- the apparatus comprises a negative lens placed in the path of the laser beam such that the lens spreads the cross-section of the beam.
- a positive lens is placed in the path of the beam issuing from the negative lens collimating the beam to a predetermined size.
- a beam splitter is placed in the path of the collimated beam such that a portion of the beam passes through the beam splitter and continues towards the holographic recording medium as a reference beam, and a portion of the beam is directed away from the holographic recording medium as an objective beam.
- the reference beam emerging from the beam splitter is caused to impinge on the holographic recording medium with a cross-section of substantially the same size as that of the objective beam.
- This size is controlled by a fourth positive lens placed in the path of the reference beam converging the beam to a focal point and inverting the beam.
- a fifth positive lens placed in the path of the beam emerging from the focal point such that the beam is diverged to a cross-section substantially the same as that of the objective beam at the point of the impingement of the beams on the holographic recording medium.
- the interaction of the beams creates a grating structure on the holographic recording medium which will diffract one pixel of an image projected on the holographic medium a predetermined amount.
- Means are provided for impinging the substantially coincident objective and reference beams on a multiplicity of points on the holographic recording medium.
- FIG. 2 is a schematic representation of the system shown in FIG. 1, depicting the passage of a single light ray bundle through a lens group and a variable acuity non-linear lens;
- FIG. 3 is a schematic representation of another aspect of the invention, the apparatus used to create the variable acuity non-linear lens shown in FIG. 1.
- the present invention provides an HOE lens and a system which creates and projects images matching the variation of human visual acuity over a 180° field of view.
- a system is shown in FIG. 1.
- a computer 10 is programmed to create images which will be displayed on a hemispherical observation screen 12.
- the screen may comprise the interior of a viewing dome or a desired portion of a hemispherical figure.
- the computer 10 is programmed to create images comprised of pixels.
- the pixels are of a uniform shape and size and each contains a fixed amount of visual information.
- the portion of each image, represented by the visual information within each pixel increases proportionally with the distance of the pixel from the center of the image.
- the image created by the computer is normal in its center and compressed towards its edges.
- the function of the remainder of the elements of the system is to display and decompress the compressed pixels in the proper amount such that the final images viewed by an observer 20 appear normal.
- the amount of visual information contained within each pixel is fixed. Thus the resolution at the center of a displayed image is normal and decreases towards its edges.
- the images are projected by a light valve 14, a lens group 16 and a variable acuity non-linear holographic optical element (HOE) 18.
- the light valve receives a computer generated image and projects it into the lens group.
- the lens group forms the projected image into collimated light ray bundles which strike the HOE.
- the HOE bends the light ray bundles redirecting them and causing their expansion as they travel towards the screen 12.
- the amount of redirection and expansion imparted by the HOE increases by a predetermined amount in proportion to the distance from its center each light ray bundle strikes the HOE.
- the light ray bundles are collectively reflected from the screen to form the images seen by the observer 20.
- Means 32 are provided to maintain the highest resolution portion of the projected image in alignment with the foveal axis of the observer's eye. Means 32 senses the direction of the field of view of the observer and rotates the light valve 14, lens group 16 and HOE 18, as required, to maintain this alignment.
- the lens group 16 is shown in greater detail in FIG. 2.
- the lens group comprises a positive lens or lens group 34 and a negative lens or lens group 36.
- the positive lens 34 converges light rays 38 emanating from the projecting surface 22 of the light valve.
- the negative lens 36 is placed in the path of the converging light rays 38 at a location where the rays have a predetermined cross section.
- the negative lens 36 collimates the light rays to this cross section 40. For example, the relative portion of a diverging light ray bundle 38 projecting from a pixel C on the projecting surface 22 will strike the positive lens 34. After passing through the positive lens the light ray bundle converges.
- negative lens 36 refracts the light ray bundle towards the HOE 18 as a collimated beam 40 having the desired cross section.
- the collimated beam strikes the HOE which diffracts and expands the beam a predetermined amount based on the distance the beam strikes the HOE away from a center line 42.
- the HOE, the light valve 14, the positive lens 34 and the negative lens 36 are all preferably aligned on a common center line 42.
- the beam then strikes the screen 12 and is reflected as a part E of a total projected image.
- the resulting collimated beams strike the HOE a distance proportionally further away from the center line 42 of the HOE, and the HOE diffracts the collimated beams a proportionally greater amount away from the center line 42 of the viewing screen.
- the HOE additionally expands the collimated beams by a similarly proportionally greater amount.
- the present invention may be used as a flight simulator with the addition of the necessary equipment to comprise a simulated pilot's position, and appropriate software enabling the computer to create flight images providing the appearance of a view from the cockpit of the aircraft simulated.
- Other simulations may be accomplished by providing the appropriate simulated operators station and the software to create images associated with the activity simulated.
- the apparatus comprises an optical arrangement designed to record a holographic optical element for non-linear projection of an object plane 62.
- the object plane is comprised of uniform pixels which represent the variable acuity image.
- the object plane is circular, having a central axis of symmetry corresponding to the axis of symmetry 42 of the HOE to be recorded.
- the optical arrangement includes a laser source 44, a first negative lens 48 to spread the laser beam, a first positive lens 50 to collimate the laser beam, a beam splitter 52 inserted in the collimated beam to form a reference beam 54 and an object beam 56.
- the beam splitter 52 which may comprise a half silvered mirror or other appropriate partially transmissive, partially reflective device, is placed into the collimated beam 51 to split the beam.
- the object beam is directed by appropriate reflecting means 58 to a second positive lens 60.
- Lens 60 is positioned to focus the object beam such that the inverted expanding object beam has the diameter of one pixel at the intersection of the beam with the object plane. The pixel location of the beam is determined by the offset from the axis of symmetry of the object plane.
- the object beam is then passed through a positive lens group 64 and a negative lens group 66 to create a collimated pencil object beam 56'.
- the object beam optical train, lenses 60, 64 and 66 is oriented such that the collimated pencil object beam impinges the HOE recording medium 47 at a distance from the axis of symmetry corresponding to the distance of the pixel in the object plane from the axis of symmetry of the object plane.
- the reference beam 54 passes through a positive lens 68 for focusing.
- the inverted reference beam emerging from the focal point of lens 68 passes through a positive lens 70.
- Lens 70 is a controllable optical element operating on the reference beam to provide a slightly diverging beam 54' which impinges on the HOE recording medium approximately coincident with the collimated pencil object beam.
- lens 70 is a positive lens.
- Lens 70 is positioned relative to the focus of the reference beam such that the diameter of the reference beam 54' where the beam impinges the HOE recording medium is equal to the diameter of the object beam 56'. In one embodiment, this is accomplished by keeping the distance between lens 68 and lens 70 constant while adjusting the positions of lenses 68 and 70 together along the optical axis to obtain equal beam diameter of the slightly diverging reference beam 54' and the collimated pencil object beam 56' on the HOE recording medium.
- the angle of divergence of the reference beam 54' is controlled by lens 70 to be proportional to the distance from the axis of symmetry of the object plane of the pixel represented by the object beam.
- the angular relationship between the reference beam optical train and the object beam optical train to result in a projected beam at a given angle is well known in the art of holographic recording.
- the divergence of the reference beam results in a divergence of the projected beam.
- the cross sections of the two beams are substantially the same size and are simultaneously impinged on the recording medium for a predetermined length of time.
- the recording medium 47 is exposed by the beams, creating a grating structure on the medium. After development of the medium, the area exposed by the beams, when used with the variable acuity non-linear projecting system of the present invention, will diffract one pixel of a variable acuity image, redirecting and expanding the pixel a predetermined amount.
- a multiplicity of points on the medium may be exposed.
- a particular setting of the optical trains may be used to expose a ring shaped area on the medium by rotating the medium about its center line.
- the recording medium 47 After the recording medium 47 fully exposed, it may be developed by methods well known in the art.
- the recording medium material to be used, the length of time for each exposure, and the techniques for setting up and altering the optical trains depicted in FIG. 3, are also well known in the art and standard practices may be used to create the HOE of the present invention with the optical trains described above.
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